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An underside view of an Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 4 (VX-4) F/A-18C Hornet aircraft in-flight. VX-4 is testing and evaluating the AIM-120 advanced medium range air-to-air missile (AMRAAM). The Hornet is armed with eight AMRAAMS mounted on four wing pylons and two mounted on the fuselage. The Hornet is also carrying two AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles, one on each wing tip

An underside view of an Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 4 (VX-4) F/A-18C Hornet aircraft in-flight. VX-4 is testing and evaluating the AIM-120 advanced medium range air-to-air missile (AMRAAM). The Hornet is armed with eight AMRAAMs on four wing pylons and two on the fuselage. The Hornet also carries two AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles, one on each wing tip

An underside view on an Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 4 (VX-4) F/A-18C Hornet aircraft in flight. VX-4 is testing and evaluating the AIM-120 advanced medium range air-to-air missile (AMRAAM). The Hornet is armed with eight AMRAAMs on four wing pylons and two mounted on the fuselage. The Hornet is also carrying two AIM-9 Sidewinder missile, one on each wing tip

An underside view on an Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 4 (VX-4) F/A-18C Hornet aircraft banking to the left. VX-4 is testing and evaluating the AIM-120 advanced medium range air-to-air missile (AMRAAM). The Hornet is armed with eight AMRAAMs on four wing pylons and two mounted on the fuselage. The Hornet is also carrying two AIM-9 Sidewinder missile, one on each wing tip

An air-to-air left side view of an F-18A Hornet aircraft with AIM-9L Sidewinder dummy missiles mounted on its wing tips. The aircraft is from Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 4 (VX-4) assigned to Fighter/AEW Wing Pacific

Strike Fighter Squadron 136 (VFA-136) F/A-18A Hornet aircraft, left, and Attack Squadron 34 (VA-34) A-6E Intruder aircraft sit armed and ready on the flight deck of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (CVN-69) during Operation Desert Shield. The Intruders and one of the Hornets are armed with Mark 20 Rockeye II cluster bombs. Each Hornet carries AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles on its wing tips; two have AGM-88A HARM anti-radar missiles on their wing pylons

Strike Fighter Squadron 136 (VFA-136) F/A-18A Hornet aircraft, left, and Attack Squadron 34 (VA-34) A-6E Intruder aircraft sit armed and ready on the flight deck of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (CVN-69). The Intruders and one of the Hornets are armed with Mark 20 Rockeye II cluster bombs. All of the Hornets are carrying AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles on their wing tips; two have AGM-88A HARM anti-radar missiles on their wing pylons

An air-to-air left side view of a Strike Fighter Squadron 136 (VFA-136) F/A-18C Hornet aircraft over the Persian Gulf. The Hornet is armed with AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles while a Sidewinder on the wing of another Hornet is in the foreground

An F/A-18C Hornet aircraft of Strike Fighter Squadron 147 (VFA-147) flies over an oil platform during Operation Southern Watch, a multinational effort establishing a no-fly zone for Iraqi aircraft south of the 32nd parallel in Iraq. The Hornet is armed with AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles on the wing tips and AIM-7 Sparrow missiles on the wing pylons. VFA-147 is embarked aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS NIMITZ (CVN-68)

An underside view of an Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 4 (VX-4) F/A-18C Hornet aircraft in-flight. VX-4 is testing and evaluating the AIM-120 advanced medium range air-to-air missile (AMRAAM). The Hornet is armed with eight AIM-120 AMRAAMS mounted on four wing pylons and two mounted on the fuselage. The Hornet is also carrying two AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles, one on each wing tip

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label_outline Explore Air Test, Two Aim 9 Sidewinder Missiles, Vx

A underside view of an F/A-18 Hornet aircraft assigned to Air Test and Evaluation Squadron Four (VX-4)

A front right underside view of a Hokum helicopter on a test flight

Aviation ordnancemen load Mark 82 500-pound retarded delivery bombs onto the wing pylon of an A-6E Intruder aircraft aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (CVN 69)

An F-16 Fighting Falcon Block 52 aircraft from the 157th Fighter Squadron, 169th Fighter Wing, McEntire Air National Guard Station, South Carolina, in flight. The aircraft is armed with AGM-88 HARM's (high-speed anti-radiation missile), AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles and AIM-120 AMRAAM's (advanced medium-range air-to-air missile). Another F-16 can be seen in the distance

Artwork: "COL. Tip Clark Over Hahn". Artist: John W. Clark. U.S. Air Force Art Collection

Attack Squadron 46 (VA-46) A-7E Corsair II aircraft fly near the refueling boom of a KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft as they prepare for refueling over the Red Sea during Operation Desert Storm. The Corsair on the right is armed with an AIM-9 Sidewinder missile on its right fuselage pylon

A view of ten BDU-50 practice bombs mounted on pylons beneath the left wing of a 509th Bomb Group FB-111A aircraft

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Brody Bundy, 33rd Aircraft

A Strike Fighter Squadron 81 (VFA-81) F/A-18C Hornet aircraft flies over the sea during Operation Desert Shield. The aircraft is carrying an AIM-9 Sidewinder missile on each wing tip. VFA-81 is based aboard the aircraft carrier USS SARATOGA (CV-60)

F-16C Fighting Falcon aircraft of the 50th Tactical Fighter Wing take part in a mission against Iraqi targets during Operation Desert Storm. The aircraft are armed with AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles and Mark 84 2,000-pound bombs.

US Air Force (USAF) STAFF Sergeant (SSGT) Landon Favors, Weapons Loader, assigned to the 2nd Bomb Wing (BW), checks the safety pins on a Conventional Air Launch Cruise Missile attached to the wing pylon of aUSAF B-52H Stratofortress aircraft while deployed with the 7th Air Expeditionary Wing (AEW) at Andersen Air Force Base (AFB), Guam, during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

A flight deck crewmen signals to the pilot of an Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 1 (VX-1) ES-3A Shadow aircraft in preparation for a catapult launch from the aircraft carrier USS SARATOGA (CV-60) during the NATO exercise Display Determination '92

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underside view test air test evaluation evaluation squadron vx hornet aircraft in flight c hornet aircraft in flight aim medium range medium range missile amraam eight aim pylons fuselage two aim sidewinder sidewinder missiles tip air to air missile aim 9 sidewinder wing pylon high resolution a 18 c hornet aircraft in flight two aim 9 sidewinder missiles vx 4 eight aim 120 amraams aim 120 air to air view military aircraft jet aircraft public domain aircraft photos us national archives